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I,Q Review :::Novel:::
14 years ago
by ~Mori-Nawts-294
Title: I, Q
Written By: John de Lancie and Peter David
Published: 1999 by Pocket Books
Page Numbers: 249
THIS BOOK MADE ME CRY SO BAD AT THE END!! It was a terrific way to explore the Q character, as well as Lady Q (his wife) and Q2 (his son)
It starts off with a unnamed woman walking along a beach naked and happy. During her walk, she discovers a odd bottle with a narrative inside describing the recent life and death of a individual. She reads this, discovering the individual's name as "Q", and he describes a End of Times. But something about this man's writing rings a bell in her mind.
Data and Picard are in the holo-deck of the USS Enterprise-E fishing. It is a way for Picard to help the android discover more of himself and his newly found emotions. Picard is describing a legend of a large swordfish in the waters near his home in France. Little do they know, Q has taken his own family fishing, (except in the deep oceans on a planet), when suddenly Q2 and Lady Q are pulled into a fissure that somehow blocks their powers. In a desperate attempt to rescue them, he realized somehow Data and Picard have arrived as well. Only able to save the Star-Fleet officers, Picard automatically blames Q for what has happened, but Q senses the "rupture" in the universe. When Picard and Data accept to help the all-powerful being, he brings them to the Q-Continuum. There, the entire Continuum is...partying? In a attempt to figure out why the whole Q-Continuum is going mad, he is found by the same Q who restored his powers in the episode "Deja-Q". There, That Q explains that the End of Times is here, and that all of the universe is beginning to collapse. Q then begins to be attacked by his fellows, and he snags the Human and Android, pulling them back to the fissure, where they are pulled into a strange world that not only nulls Q's powers, but also contains a train barreling into a fire and Locutus of Borg. The trio manage to defeat Locutus, and they are thrown again into another "level" of the universe. Here they are separated, and Q slowly wanders the streets of the dying universe. He is somehow drawn to a tent that, while he's there, he slowly begins to rediscover his powers. As he inters, he is met by a M-Continuum member, who claims Q is behind the destruction of the universe. He simply states he's only looking for his lost wife, child, and friends, but M disagrees and sends in Data (with Picard not far behind) to represent him. Data, in the defense, switches on his emotion chip and begins to shot and become morally pissed with M, stating it is her fault they are trapped here. In her anger, M sends the trio to a new level, where Q's powers are drained again, and he begins to sense his son here.
After trailing clues to his son's whereabouts, they finally find him in "God's" tent, where Q2 has built up so much loneliness and anger he literally blows Data into thousands of pieces. Q eventually gets to his son, and when Father and Son finally reunite, (and revive Data) they are thrown into the final (and most devastating) level.
It is here Q finally sees Lady Q, and realizes she is about to wither away from him. As she begins to die, he screams about his love for her and their son, and how he wishes to die just to end the pain (awww!)
Q starts to panic, and after watching his wife die, he begins to feel his "age" (if immortal beings can) and starts to deteriorate as well. Suddenly, Picard, Data, Q, and Q2 are being crushed by reality itself. Q manages to save his son, but Data and the Captain are crushed dead, and it is then Q cannot take it anymore. He manages to take Q2 back to the Continuum, and it is there he stops the destruction and (literally) saves the universe.
As the woman on the beach reads this, she discovers Q2's body on the beach. after reviving him, she send him back, sending with him a message in a bottle, containing four small words.
Picard awakens on the holo-deck boat, unable to believe he is alive. Data appears from the cabin, telling Picard that Q is in there. Q feels the most wondrous feeling as he sees Lady Q and Q2 beside him and embraces them, but he discovers the note left by the woman Q2 previously met. It was a friend from old Earth, and she left him with a message only he would ever understand.
"Let there be light....
Title: I, Q
Written By: John de Lancie and Peter David
Published: 1999 by Pocket Books
Page Numbers: 249
THIS BOOK MADE ME CRY SO BAD AT THE END!! It was a terrific way to explore the Q character, as well as Lady Q (his wife) and Q2 (his son)
It starts off with a unnamed woman walking along a beach naked and happy. During her walk, she discovers a odd bottle with a narrative inside describing the recent life and death of a individual. She reads this, discovering the individual's name as "Q", and he describes a End of Times. But something about this man's writing rings a bell in her mind.
Data and Picard are in the holo-deck of the USS Enterprise-E fishing. It is a way for Picard to help the android discover more of himself and his newly found emotions. Picard is describing a legend of a large swordfish in the waters near his home in France. Little do they know, Q has taken his own family fishing, (except in the deep oceans on a planet), when suddenly Q2 and Lady Q are pulled into a fissure that somehow blocks their powers. In a desperate attempt to rescue them, he realized somehow Data and Picard have arrived as well. Only able to save the Star-Fleet officers, Picard automatically blames Q for what has happened, but Q senses the "rupture" in the universe. When Picard and Data accept to help the all-powerful being, he brings them to the Q-Continuum. There, the entire Continuum is...partying? In a attempt to figure out why the whole Q-Continuum is going mad, he is found by the same Q who restored his powers in the episode "Deja-Q". There, That Q explains that the End of Times is here, and that all of the universe is beginning to collapse. Q then begins to be attacked by his fellows, and he snags the Human and Android, pulling them back to the fissure, where they are pulled into a strange world that not only nulls Q's powers, but also contains a train barreling into a fire and Locutus of Borg. The trio manage to defeat Locutus, and they are thrown again into another "level" of the universe. Here they are separated, and Q slowly wanders the streets of the dying universe. He is somehow drawn to a tent that, while he's there, he slowly begins to rediscover his powers. As he inters, he is met by a M-Continuum member, who claims Q is behind the destruction of the universe. He simply states he's only looking for his lost wife, child, and friends, but M disagrees and sends in Data (with Picard not far behind) to represent him. Data, in the defense, switches on his emotion chip and begins to shot and become morally pissed with M, stating it is her fault they are trapped here. In her anger, M sends the trio to a new level, where Q's powers are drained again, and he begins to sense his son here.
After trailing clues to his son's whereabouts, they finally find him in "God's" tent, where Q2 has built up so much loneliness and anger he literally blows Data into thousands of pieces. Q eventually gets to his son, and when Father and Son finally reunite, (and revive Data) they are thrown into the final (and most devastating) level.
It is here Q finally sees Lady Q, and realizes she is about to wither away from him. As she begins to die, he screams about his love for her and their son, and how he wishes to die just to end the pain (awww!)
Q starts to panic, and after watching his wife die, he begins to feel his "age" (if immortal beings can) and starts to deteriorate as well. Suddenly, Picard, Data, Q, and Q2 are being crushed by reality itself. Q manages to save his son, but Data and the Captain are crushed dead, and it is then Q cannot take it anymore. He manages to take Q2 back to the Continuum, and it is there he stops the destruction and (literally) saves the universe.
As the woman on the beach reads this, she discovers Q2's body on the beach. after reviving him, she send him back, sending with him a message in a bottle, containing four small words.
Picard awakens on the holo-deck boat, unable to believe he is alive. Data appears from the cabin, telling Picard that Q is in there. Q feels the most wondrous feeling as he sees Lady Q and Q2 beside him and embraces them, but he discovers the note left by the woman Q2 previously met. It was a friend from old Earth, and she left him with a message only he would ever understand.
"Let there be light....
